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Highlight Guide to 2017 Spring Meeting & 13th GCPS

February 24, 2017
February 24, 2017

There's a lot planned for San Antonio, so get a head start planning your time with these links.

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Westinghouse's Huge Loss Ends the Short-lived US Nuclear Renaissance

February 23, 2017
March 7, 2017

It's 2017 and America should be in the midst of a total, multi-state nuclear renaissance.

Safety risks and economic costs make shutting down a process when a pressure relief device needs to be isolated or removed less than ideal. Several alternative methods are available that will enable you to isolate these devices while continuing to run your process.
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Ian Sergo

Ian Sergo was the business development manager at Inglenook Engineering, Inc., when he contributed to this article. He is now the sales director at AIChE (Phone: (646) 495-1518; Email: ianse@aiche.org). He has experience in process safety management, and, in particular, experience evaluating pressure relief and effluent handling systems, management of change processes, and process hazard analyses. As the sales director at AIChE, he stays connected to the process safety community by supporting the efforts of AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process...Read more

Jeffrey Heil, P.E.

Jeffrey Heil, P.E., is a chemical engineer at Inglenook Engineering, Inc., with over 10 years of experience specializing in process safety management, relief, effluent handling, and emergency depressurization system design with an emphasis in the upstream and midstream energy sectors (Phone: (832) 457-1862; Email: jeff.heil@vtheils.com). Recently, he has been working to bring a greater awareness of process safety management to the biotechnology industry. He has presented two papers on relief system design in upstream well site facilities at the...Read more

Nanostraw Tool Samples Cells without Destruction

February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017

Using nanostraws, scientists can now sample cell contents without disrupting a cell's natural processes.

Exploring the Promise of Biomolecular Engineering

Biomolecular engineering is an emerging discipline in which scientists apply engineering principles (e.g., thermodynamics, kinetics, computational modeling) to biological molecules. Tools including recombinant DNA techniques, site-specific mutagenesis, polymer-chain reaction, and gene-editing...

3rd CCPS Global Summit on Process Safety

Proceeding

Volunteer Opportunities

We currently have the following volunteer positions coming open, due to the current officers taking new jobs: Vice Chair - Duties include planning and coordinating meetings, with assistance from the other officers Secretary - Duties include writing up and sending out meeting/event announcements,...

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